The lazy sweep ray casting algorithm for rendering irregular grids

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 142-157

  Suva, Claudio T ^a   Mitchell, Joseph S B ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational geometry; Irregular grids; Ray tracing; Scientific visualization; Sweep algorithms; Volume rendering; Volumetric data

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SURFACES;

IRREGULAR GRIDS; LAZY SWEEP RAY CASTING ALGORITHM; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031123058     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.597797     Document Type: Article

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